Frankly, I can't see the point of having a minor
changes setting. Far too often significant changes are
listed as minor, and minor changes as significant.
Often this occurs by accident. Other times, it's
someone hiding their actions. There also seems to be
no universal agreement on what kind of change is
"minor".
So, I ignore the "minor change" indication on recent
changes and elsewhere (though I do try to mark my
edits appropriately). The feature could disappear
entirely, and I'd only be pleased.
Rich Holton (a.k.a. Anthropos)
--- "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> wrote:
Carl Witty proposes a feature enhancement:
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 15:26, Elly Waterman
wrote:
> Indeed, and in addition, I like to switch off
the Minor Changes to
> watch only for the Bigger Changes, by
regular
users and ALL CHANGES
by
> anonymous users, among which unluckily are
some
vandals. If vandals
> can in some way click this nonexisting box,
they
can do their hobby
> unnoticed, at least by me, and other sysops
who
work in this way.
If people don't like removing the "minor edit" box
for anonymous
users,
how about this?
1) Put the "minor edit" box back
2) Have 3 states for "Recent Changes": show all
edits, hide minor
changes, hide minor changes from logged-in
users
This should satisfy everybody at (I assume) a
fairly small cost in
software effort.
(I actually like not having the "minor edit" box
as an anonymous user;
it helps me remember to log in!)
Let's hear some "me too" and/or "no way" posts on
this one!
Ed Poor
Developer
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